All Over the Map

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WHEN YOU’RE living in San Diego, America’s most beautiful city, during the most beautiful month of the year, you might not expect your city magazine to be suggesting weekend getaways. Ah, but we believe in planning ahead. And July’s as good a month as any to schedule that weekend getaway for October——maybe the second-most beautiful month of the year in San Diego. Of course, we have suggestions.

Tag along with Julia Beeson and her mom while they discover an upscale mountain playground at Lake Arrowhead. Race through the streets of Las Vegas in a cherry-red Porsche with Ron Donoho. And ride the rails back in time to Santa Barbara with the editor in chief. All three destinations are just hours away from paradise——and even San Diegans need to get away once in a while.

Meanwhile, back at home: Executive editor Donoho sits in bankruptcy court with Robert Brom, bishop and CEO of San Diego’s Roman Catholic Diocese, and uncovers the drama behind the dollars as the church attempts to deflect 160 lawsuits filed by victims of pedophile priests. The $200 million question: How does the church fairly compensate those victims without breaking the bank at local parishes?

Also this month: Assistant art director Heather Eubanks, the magazine’s reigning fashionista, trots out to the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club just in time for racing season——and offers up a photo finish with a winning spread of racetrack couture. In Dialogue, Laurie Black, San Diego’s newest port commissioner, talks about her vision for the city’s under-appreciated waterfront. And David Nelson and associate editor Beeson take turns picking 20 of San Diego’s flashiest, splashiest parties——from such gilded golden oldies as the Charity Ball and the Jewel Ball to relative upstarts like Mama’s Day, the Fur Ball and San Diego Magazine’s own People To Watch gala.

Party on!

Tom Blair
Editor-in-Chief

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